ESTRILDA OCHROGASTER 217 
Reichenow’s Pale Waxbill inhabits the Congo district. 
This bird is known only by the type, in the Berlin Museum, 
labelled as coming from the Congo, but the collector’s name 
is not indicated. 
Estrilda ochrogaster. 
Estrilda ochrogaster, Salvad. Boll. Mus. Torino, xii. No. 287, p. 4 
(1897) Tigré; Reichen. Vig. Afr. iii. p. 185 (1904). 
Sporeginthus ochrogaster, Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 258 L. Tsana. 
Sporeginthus margaritee, Weld-Blundell and Lovat, Bull. B. O. C. x. p. 
20 (1899) Gelongol ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 130, pl. 3, fig. 1. 
Adults. Upper parts brown, with a slight rufous shade and very indis- 
tinct narrow dark bars; rump, upper tail-coverts and edges of basal portion 
of tail-feathers crimson; remainder of tail brownish black, with a whitish 
outer margin; under wing-coverts buff; inner edges of quills whitish; 
eyebrow and sides of head pale yellowish brown; chin, throat and breast 
sandy buff, shaded with ashy brown on the flanks; a shade of rosy pink on 
the sides of the abdomen. ‘Iris brown; bill red; legs blackish.” Total 
length 4:5 inches, culmen 0:35, wing 1:9, tail 2:0, tarsus 0°55. 3, 13. 3. 99. 
Gelongol (Lovat). 
Salvadori’s Buff-breasted Waxbill inhabits Abyssinia. 
The most southern range yet known for this species is 
Gelongol, in about 8° 30’ §. lat., 37° E. long. Here Lord 
Lovat met with a flock of about one hundred, all apparently in 
very similar plumage; they were feeding on the ground and he 
killed five as they rose, including the type of Sporeginthus 
margarite ; and Mr. Dagon has obtained the species at Zegi on 
Lake Tsana. It is, however, apparently a rare bird, having 
previously been known to science only by the type, which was 
discovered by Dr. Muzioli in the Tigré province of Northern 
Abyssinia. 
The characters of the species are well shown in the figure 
in the ‘‘Ibis” for 1900, but the under tail-coverts are rather too 
